Van Jones Quotes

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

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• If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Best

• Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Future
  • Career
  • Past

• I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • American
  • You
  • Care

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Me
  • Band
  • Feel

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Big
  • Ups And Downs
  • Moody

• The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Laughing

• Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • Rock
  • Deep

• When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Writing
  • Matter
  • Page

• In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

  

  Major Taylor
  • My Own
  • Trail
  • Pioneer

• I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Design

• For many years, people have encouraged me to share my story. Prince was loved the world over, but few knew him intimately. And ours was a rare, almost otherworldly connection.

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • People
  • World
  • Connection

• And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.

  

  John Kasich
  • Energy
  • Health
  • Moving

• Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Real
  • Education
  • Democracy

• There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • World
  • Great
  • Friends

• Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

  

  Van Jones
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Threat